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Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment, LGBT Activists Defend Secular Government; Cash From Qatar Funds ‘Traditional’ Family Activism Worldwide; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r-General last month. Spain: LGBT activists challenge ‘change’ therapy The LGBT group Arcópoli has filed a complaint against Elena Lorenzo Rego, a psychotherapist who offers therapy to help people “change” from homosexual to heterosexual. India: Video aims to help families talk about sexuality The Indian Express reports on the latest episode of a Web series designed to show people how to talk about sex and homosexuality to their children or their…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…le aren’t afraid to use the word nation anymore,” Hazony declared. “NatCon today is the undisputed majority political coalition and persuasion across the west,” claimed operative Rachel Bovard, adding “We are not part of the conservative movement—we are the conservative movement.” Hazony painted a surging national conservative movement across the world: “In the UK, France, Hungary, Poland, Israel, India, we have seen NatCon going from a curiosity…

Conservative Bishops Still Mad at Pope; Oligarch Launches Orthodox Network; Yoga Won’t Change Sexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…India: Talk Show Sets Record Straight — Yoga No Cure for Homosexuality In India, where LGBT people are living with last year’s Supreme Court decision recriminalizing homosexuality, a Sunday night talk show focused on LGBT issues drew nearly 130 million viewers. The show is hosted by actor Aamir Khan, who is a GLAAD “Global Voices” advocate. According to Gay Star News, “The hashtag #FreedomForLGBT became the top trending topic globally on Twitter…

Liberals Need Not Choose Between Sexual Abuse Survivors and the Religious Minority Communities That Failed Them

By Afzal Upal

…the Mormons of Islam by some) was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, India in 1889 during the British Raj as an effort to reform Sunni Islam. Most traditional Muslim ulema declared Ahmadis kafir (i.e., non-Muslim, or heretics in Christian parlance) because Ahmad’s claim to prophecy after Muhammad was seen as violating the traditional belief in the finality of prophet Muhammad. When the British left India in 1947, Ahmad’s son and successor (“…

Obama To Skip Golden Temple: Part of A Larger Problem With Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…The New York Times reports that during President Obama’s upcoming visit to India, he will not visit a Sikh temple because he might be perceived as Muslim. The idea of president as professor and president as uniter is now officially dead. The mere fact that such a consideration would come into play tells us how much we fail to adequately talk about religion except as a political tool. Since the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama’s supporters have co…

It’s Up to You, New York… To Oppose Islamophobia

By Randall Balmer

…ll Manhattan, Henry Hudson, an Englishman under contract to the Dutch East India Company, nosed the Half Moon through the same Narrows and struggled north on the river that now bears his name. The first group of settlers to disembark in Manhattan were Walloons, French-speaking Belgians, followed shortly by a modest influx of Netherlanders, Germans and French. English Puritans bracketed Dutch settlement on Long Island, while Swedes and Finns became…

Polygamy, Genius, and the Origin of Religion

By Michael Schulson

…u Cole. Reviewing photographer Steve McCurry’s new collection of photos of India, Cole makes a distinction between an individual piece and the total sensibility that’s developed by a body of work. Again and again, Cole writes, McCurry’s photos show modern India at its more colorful, traditional, and quaint. His framing edits out the cellphones and shopping malls in favor of the saris and oxcarts. In small doses that’s fine, Cole writes. But in agg…

A Catholic Bishop on sex ed, where Jewish singles mingle, and Queen Antoinette’s cult?: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…n a suspended sentence and probation. A controversial religious figure in India claims a video showing him in a sexual act with two women is fake. The swami, who has a huge following in southern India and missions in several countries, was arrested on obscenity charges and has since stepped down from his leadership position “to live a life of spiritual seclusion for some indefinite time.” Although scientists haven’t weighed in on the matter yet…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…GBT people are converting others into their “ways against nature and God.” Indian High Court Declines to Review Decision Re-Criminalizing Homosexuality On Tuesday, the Indian Supreme Court dismissed petitions that it review its recent decision that reinstated a colonial-era anti-sodomy law. A “curative petition” by the government is still pending. Cyprus: Last European Law Criminalizing Homosexuality Repealed Thirty-three years after the European…

A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

By Andy Kopsa

…ies claim that Hvistendahl’s extensive research on sex selection in China, India, and Korea (countries where sex-selective abortion is an actual problem) supports a ban on abortion in America. I contacted Hvistendahl about her work. She seems frustrated with the way sex-selection abortion is being leveraged in America for political gain. She told me via email, “It’s a shame that anti-abortion activists in the U.S. are coming at this with the ulter…